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NCHHSTP is committed to promoting awareness, engagement, and action on the many factors that can affect the health of all persons, and to addressing these factors in our policy, practice, research, and partnership activities. In support of this commitment, we created a series of brief videos featuring our leaders speaking about the importance of addressing SDOH throughout the Center. The videos include their personal commitment to achieving health equity with a focus on the diseases and infections we work so hard to prevent.

This webpage discusses that your teen may start having their first big romantic relationships during high school. Here’s what you can do to help them have healthier, happier relationships, and deal with the responsibilities that go along with it — like consent and communication.

This webpage from Planned Parenthood covers discussion guides for parents:  Middle school is when your preteen starts asking questions like Who am I? What am I into? and start exploring their identity in all kinds of ways.

It’s normal for teens to have many questions and lots of thoughts and feelings about sex and sexuality, and parents have an important role to play. This webpage covers some tips for talking with your teen about sex.

This webpage discusses how middle-schoolers need you to set boundaries and be supportive to help them stay safe. Here’s how to talk about staying safe at school, out in the world, and online.

This webpage discusses how the physical changes of puberty are usually mostly over by the time your teen turns 16, but that doesn’t mean they’re finished growing up. Here are some tips for talking with your teen about their body, going to the doctor, and their body image.

The webinar series focused on best practices and strategies for effectively using HIV data for successful programmatic and systematic outcomes in state, local, territorial, and tribal (STLT) health departments. The first webinar focused on data reporting to multiple funding streams. The second webinar covered how to use surveillance data to inform HIV programs. The final webinar was an interactive and engaging session for EHE jurisdictions to discuss best practices for completing CDC-PS20-2010 activities. 

Re-envisioning Community Engagement: A Practical Toolkit to Empower HIV Prevention Efforts with Marginalized Communities walks through the foundational concepts and principles that shape community engagement within HIV prevention and care. With the identified goals of the Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE), it is crucial for EHE jurisdictions, health departments, and community organizations to effectively engage communities within the process. Community engagement applies to different communities and regions.

This webpage educates readers that if you recognize some of the warning signs of suicide in someone you know, or feel that someone you know is at risk for suicide, there are steps you can take to help.